Improvement in hats



W. A. BATE.

Hat.

Patented April 9, 1878.

I YIIIIII'I'I'I'I'IlI/ll I Mbzes I r M N. PETERS, PHOYO-LITHQGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. u q.

U ITED STA ES PATENT OEEIoE.

A M A. BATE, OF YONKERS, NEW YORK, AssIeNon TO EBEN BALDWIN,

or sAME rLAcE.

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IM PROVEMENT IN HATS.

cification forming part of -Letters Patent No. 202,217, dated April 9, i878 application filed January 22, 1878.

known that I, WILLIAM A. BATE, of represents the brim, B the side crown, and G in the county of Westchester and the tip, of the hat-body, all made-in one piece State New York, have invented a new and and of the same color, and with a depression, usefi u provement in Hats,'of which the folb, in the tip, at its junction with the side crown. lowin s a description, reference being had Supposing the color of said hat-body to be to th ccompanying drawing, forming part white, and any number of such hat-bodies of of thi pecification. similar size and color to be made, also a cor- Thi vention is more particularly intended responding number of similarly'sized and conlied to felt hats; but it is also applistructed hat-bodies of a different color-say,

cable hats made of other materials than blackto be made; then cutting out the tip felt. will suffice here, however, to describe 0 of each white or one-colored hat-body on the r 1: tion as applied to felt hats. the circular line as x, where the depression I) is My. ention consists, in combination with made, (see Fig. 2,) so as to leave a turnedving the crown formed with a brim over margin, 0, to the tip of said hat-body,

wm-it may concern: be made to Fig. 2 of the drawing, in whichA and I a turned-in margin, of a separate tip (shown more clearly in Fig. 3,) and aturned-in havin turned-over margin, the said margins margin, d, to the side crown, (shown more of th rown and of the tip being connected clearly in Fig. 4,) and similarly cutting out the toget by sewing or otherwise, in order to tip of each black or differently-colored, but form omplete article. similarly sized and constructed, hat-body, and

In t ying out the invention, it is proposed inserting the turned-over margin of the tip of to un' the tip with the side crown by inserteach black hat-body within the turned-in marin g a Irned-over margin of the tip within a gin of the side crown of each white hat-body, turne margin of the side crown, and afteras shown in Fig. 1, and inserting the turnedward sew or otherwise unite said margins over margin of the tip of each white hat-body toget whereby not only may the tip be of within the turned-in margin of the side crown a diff t color from that of the brim and of each black hat-body, I next unite, by sewside w 11, but in manufacturing such hats ing or otherwise, with or without a binder, c, waste avoided by inserting a tip cut from a the side crown and tip margins within the hathat-b of one color into the side crown of bodies, as shown in Fig.1. a bod f another color, and vice versa, where- This mode of construction not only conceals by, a1 exposure of the seam by which the tip the seam made by the union of the side crown is un with the side crown is avoided, or with the tip, but waste is avoided, inasmuch as said s u concealed within the hat. the tips cut out of the hat-bodies of either one .Fig 1 represents a vertical section of a color are made to form tips for the hat-bodies felt h body constructed in accordance with of a difl'erent color. my in I tion. Fig. 2 is a vertical section'of I claim a hat dy, of one color throughout, prior to Thecombination,withahathavingthecrown remo 1 its tip for the insertion of another formed with a brim and with a turned-in martip of fferent color. Fig. 3 is a vertical secgin, of a separate tip having a turned-over tion 0 aid tip after its removal from the side margin, said margin of the crown and of the cro n the hat-body; and Fig. 4, a vertical tip bein g constructed and connected together sectio f the brim and side crown, ready for substantially as herein described. the 111 t1on of a tip of different color. WILLIAM BATE w r letters of reference indicate correspon parts throughout the several figures. Witnesses:

To lain the invention andmethod of manu- HENRY T. BROWN, factu 1 my improved hat, reference will first HALL F. BALDWIN. 

